Psych 100: Ch 6.1

Question 0

Stimulus-Response Psychology

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The attempt to explain behavior in terms of how each stimulus triggers a response

Question 1

Behaviorism

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The position that psychology should concern itself only with what people and other animals do, and the circumstances in which they do it

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Unconditioned Reflex

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Automatic connections between a stimulus (such as food) and a response (such as secreting digestive juices)

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Classical Conditioning

or Pavlovian conditioning

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Process by which an organism learns a new association between two stimuli - a neutral stimulus and one that already evokes a reflexive response

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Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)

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An event that automatically elicits an unconditioned response

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Unconditioned Response (UCR)

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The action that the unconditioned stimulus elicits

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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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Response to it depends on the preceding conditions

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Conditioned Response (CR)

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Whatever response the conditioned stimulus elicits as a result of the conditioning (training) procedure

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Acquisition

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Process that establishes or strengthens a conditioned response

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Extinction

in classical conditioning

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To extinguish a classically conditioned response, repeatedly present the conditioned stimulus (CS) without the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

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Spontaneous Recovery

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A temporary return of an extinguished response after a delay

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Stimulus Generalization

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Extension of a conditioned response from the training stimulus to similar stimuli

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Discrimination

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To respond differently to stimuli that predict different outcomes

Question 13

Drug Tolerance

Answer 13

Users of certain drugs experience progressively weaker effects after taking the drugs repeatedly

Question 14

Blocking Effect

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The previously established association to one stimulus blocks the formation of an association to the added stimulus